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yo guys johnathan here welcome to the perfect macbook pro set up photographer edition so over the years I've gotten a ton of requests for a photography based setup but the problem is I am NOT a photographer so for this one I called a mr. Tyler Stallman who's an insanely talented photographer and this is what he does for a living now the centerpiece of the setup is not something you would normally expect honestly had I not collaborated with Tyler I don't think I would have found this option either so this is a 62 inch adjustable work table from husky which is something you grabbed from Home Depot rather than IKEA or furniture spot but it worked surprisingly well so Tyler's in the mists of redoing his studio which is why he was looking to do a desk setup and the number one priority for him was to have everything kind of locked and loaded on the desk but with the freedom to move around Jonathan and his team mounted a power bar underneath the back of the desks there could just be that one cable running off so that as I move it around nothing's gonna get caught everything's contained and when I come there with my MacBook Pro I can just put it down plug one or two cables in and I'm ready to go in choosing the actual desk it was important to me that it was adaptable so that for one meant that it could be raised up and down it also has to kind of be able to get the beat up because when the camera gets put on it it scratches the nice table in an open studio space like this we're always kind of moving things around depending on the shoot so it was important that it was on wheels so I can easily bring it from one side of the room to the other depending on what we're shooting now this particular desk we couldn't get shipped out in time while Tyler was out in LA so we actually borrowed this from another photographer sound Hopkins who also does amazing work makes you guys check him out but what was interesting is he actually stained the top of this which came out amazing now as far as the computer Tyler's choice is a 20-18 15-inch MacBook Pro the way that we work is a lot of travel photography and also in studio stuff so it had to be a 15-inch MacBook Pro so that I've got plenty of screen real estate on the go and then when I come and plug it in I've still got lots of power when I'm in the studio now as far as the monitor goes we don't want to go crazy expensive so we kind of met in the middle of size and performance this is a 32 inch 4k 10 bit HDR monitor from Ben q and what's awesome is that it connects via USB see I thought that Ben cue monitor was a really interesting choice it's it's enormous it's 30 inches and it has P three color space as well as 4k so it looked pretty great but out of the box their color accuracy wasn't quite perfect so we used a spider five Express to calibrate it so then it can match the MacBook Pro monitor or a printer or any other digital devices as well even if you have a really high precision monitor it's good to calibrate your colors about once a month they gradually so we went for a slightly more affordable big monitor and just made sure it was as accurate as possible now it kind of ties everything together and brings the hub or dock like functionality to the setup is this awesome let's see external Thunderbolt 3 hard drive which has card readers built-in which is perfect for photographers see if blazing fast storage come out with quick access to upload your files and I love the fact that it kind of just keeps everything together and super clean and minimal now as far as the mouse and keyboard one the trusty Logitech performance MX which you can't go wrong with then an Apple wireless magic keyboard with number pad we added a full-size wireless apple keyboard because I think one mistake they made on the MacBook Pro is that those arrow keys aren't the shape of a tee anymore so when you're just feeling around with your fingers it's hard to know exactly what you're pressing until you look at it in a Lightroom navigating left/right up/down is something you're doing all the time so this bigger keyboard gives you more room for that it also has another numerical pad which is great for rating photos now without a doubt what was the most interesting element of this setup was the pallet control surface kit this is the expert Edition which is kind of this awesome modular control surface which in this case Tyler used with Lightroom and this you can assign to any controls within Lightroom or Photoshop and they're super modular so you can shape them around your desk like I was just getting started with them but it made me want to have a lot more of them they felt really good to use and I especially just like to have them for my exposure and white balance like it was just that that's very useful right there honestly was just kind of awesome seen Tyler work in his element he's so fluid and seamless you can tell it kind of just comes second nature so this was definitely a cool way to kind of enhance his overall workflow if you curious on why there's no speakers on this desk Tyler just use your rocks a pair of wired Sony headphones and it turns out that the adjustable crank on the desk works perfectly to hang those headphones this desk turned out awesome so Jonathan thanks for having me be a part of it photographers are very particular about their gear so it was great to put something to custom together that was just what I needed so that is the perfect macbook pro set up for photographers this would also work amazing through 13 inch macbook pro as well hopefully enjoyed the video if you did and you are feeling like being awesome makes you guys smash that like button check out some of Tyler's work link down below he does some amazing work and if you're looking for more setup inspiration I actually just posted a secret office tour which is linked here or down as well this is Jonathan and I will catch you guys later